In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.

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.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

We live to survive our paradoxes.

American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids.

Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

Those who cry to be young again should think twice before they seal those prayers.

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.