Envy comes from people's ignorance of or lack of belief in their own gifts.

To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.

PRUNING can be PAINFUL yet it brings PROSPERITY

The Codex is our moral code. No one is higher than the law. Those who break the law must be broken.

For her, their romantic interlude atop the staircase had been a glorious, magical, enlightening introduction to pleasure. For him, it had merely been Friday evening.

Mysticism is the acquired immunodeficiency of regional ontologies

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.

thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

You are your dreams. Your dreams are what you can become, so don't stop dreaming and believing. Just Do It!