Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right

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.

What is birthday, but a celebration of death.

Kids are trusting and wise and I cannot think of a less useful combination to be born with. The wisdom lets children know who they are. And then the trust lets everyone else take that knowledge away.

Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!

I'm not much into anything too flashy.

Christians are not perfect, and all of us do sin along the way. But genuine Christians hear His voice and follow Him.

I believe in God, and that's a personal relationship that I have, but I'm not religious in any way.

When you release your faith in uncommon ways, youll see God do uncommon things.

[In 2004] That's how I got a relationship with Steve Jobs. Because I listened really hard to him cause he's the smartest guy I ever worked for.

We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.

At the end of the day I separate things; my life is my life and my work is my work.