I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

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.

It's hard to be an articulate ghost.

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.

Do not deny the impact your life can have on others.

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.

So if you think being thin is enough to succeed in gymnastics, you're wrong.

The land belongs to the future.