Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.

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.

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

Fearing failure is fearing life. Failure is a great way to learn from life.

Silence is a beautiful story.

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation.

It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse

...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.

I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.

What inspires me is the universe.