Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

Do not compare yourself to anybody!

Mind of a loving heart is the fountain of knowledge.

When it becomes acceptable to kill another man or woman, childhood dies.” whispered Laurence. “When it becomes acceptable to kill a child…humanity dies.

Cats are hard to train, but they can train them.

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

I started meditating and as soon as I turned that lens of attention inwards, it was like, okay, game over. This is what I'd been looking for to resolve some of these inner conflicts and pains.

God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.

The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.

I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.