“I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own…” — Thomas Merton

I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.