The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

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.

Death always wins.

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them just the way he did.

It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which insure success.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.

People have known me for so long, I'm just Della to them.

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.