The life you have built around you is a reflection of what is within you. If you don't like what you see, go inside.

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.

As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.

The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.

For me music is so passionate. I have to give it my all every time I go onstage.

The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.

Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.

Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as **** fighting and dog fighting. We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States.