The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

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.

With the increasing speed of business in today’s economy, transparency isn’t just desirable—it’s essential.

The moment you blame life for who you are is that very moment you ignore your talents and inner abilities to change the world.

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

Well, I have my immortal soul. At least, I'm pretty sure I didn't misplace it somewhere along the way.

Love without trust is a river without water.

When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it.

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?