I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign.

The beauty of the Catholic church is that it has a sacramental structure that can hold its own with the best out of any tradition. It has a mystical system and content that can hold its own with the best out of Tibet... its an amazing tradition, but I think you need to be critical.

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.