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"God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be."
"Wonder. Go on and wonder."
"If you want to be rich, simply serve more people."
"Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .""
"I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars."
"Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things."
"In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished."
"A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon."
"We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation."
"On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom."
"As you give out, so shall you receive."
"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem."
"We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way."
"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."
"You should work your hardest to inspire your inspirations"
"If we are pure at heart, we would not wish one person well and not another. We should see there is no difference between one person or another. Then our pure thoughts can be evenly spread between all people. Sunshine can reflect on clean water but not on dirty water. God's light will be reflected by those persons with a pure heart."
"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
"After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts."
"Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend."
"We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us."
