Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

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.

Sometimes divorce is the best thing that can happen to marriage

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.

I was pretty quiet as a child.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not

I believe - figuratively, but in a very real way - we need to tent the White House!

I'm always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don't focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.