Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.

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.

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

Keep on reading, thinking, doing and writing! Words keep introducing their friends to you.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'

Waffles are just awesome bread.

Strong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill.

What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

I'm not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don't ever want to be afraid to cut those types of songs because radio might not play it.

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.