To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to rob others without interruption. To still others it means the leisure to devour the goods of the earth without being compelled to interrupt their pleasures to feed those whom their greed is starving. And to practically everybody peace simply means the absence of any physical violence that might cast a shadow over lives devoted to the satisfaction of their animal appetites for comfort and pleasure.

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.

When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.

Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home with oneself. This means basically learning who one is, and learning what one has to offer to the contemporary world, and then learning how to make that offering valid.