"Eat without the TV going on. Learn to appreciate food with only the entertainment of conversation-yours and someone else's."

“If God gave you a strong personality it's for serving others not controlling them.”

“Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.”

“You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.”

“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.”

“Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.”

“Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.”

“I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a “thin place”–a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan.”

“The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we.”