You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father.

The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.

Lovely morning! How lovely life can be!

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.

If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.