I am working on three things: on being a prayerful person; on staying close to the handicapped; and on my writing. These are my constant concerns.

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.

Cause I'm Irish, and everyone remembers me.

The first thing fading is your beautythe least trustworthy is your minddown here on this earthnothing's of any worthin the endin the end

As a result of my hike, I am much more inclined to "do" things. I will have fewer "should have done"s even if it means incurring some "wish I hadn't"s.

I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may know a lot of French however.

I rant, therefore I am

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are--else there would beno dealing with them.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility.