"I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral"

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart"

"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening"

"Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared"

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer"

"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness"

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it"

"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer"

"The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer"

"I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer"