Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.

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.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.

The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money.

Money is only important when you don't have any.