Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

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.

Its circumference was tiny, but he had a life, and he would not give it up.

Turning your back on nothing and walking away is not disloyal, it's self respect.

The cross is steady while the world is turning.

The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.

A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest.

It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting.

A beautiful person is a person who is capable of being the best version of himself/herself, inside and out as often as possible.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

I glared at him. "I may not die now... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.

You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.