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

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.

Look at your own povertywelcome itcherish itdon't be afraidshare your deathbecause thus you will share your love and your life

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.