Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

As many numbers of people as are there, there are that many varieties of egoisms.

I learn from the past, I dwell in the present, and I plan for the future.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.

Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.

Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.

Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.

There is nothing more powerful as attitude.

Only a well-oiled machine runs smoothly.