People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

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.

The Responsibility Of The Local Church Is To Help People Discover What They Are Created For

Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn't need to be.

My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell

The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.

If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.

Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state.

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.

Whatever you believe, be open to being wrong

There are times when you get frustrated, but the one thing you always focus on is treating people well. You just cannot storm off and freak out.