The key to abundance is acceptance. The more you expect, the less you accept.

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.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

Everything around you is your life and your opportunity

The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.

We are not at war with the Afghani people, and we are not at war with Islam, which most Americans respect as a religion of peace.

Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.

Whenever you talk about a Mike Shanahan offense, you're always going to be talking about his offense.

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

Firms that fully embrace the needs and interests of the whole person will win today's competition for the best talent.

You can't really make something or make a movie and feel all through the process that it's a painful thing. It's not possible to do that.