I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

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.

It's stories that inspire people to change. It's stories that make them believe things can be better.

There's a profit attached to every problem. Find it, face it and fix it.

We'll always have Paris.

I want my home to look good, feel good, and smell good. I want it to be inclusive, to reflect the people who live there.

Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom.

The poem is itself a mirror.

I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent.

People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.