The more I think I know I realize, the more that is left unknown and that's the best part.

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.

We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.

Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.

People are living books. The real library of life is community.

It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It was like none of it had ever happened.

Love is an eternal shining star.

Our prayers can go where we cannot...there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

Don't be like me. Look at me: monogamous, in shape, no debt, sober... I'm dead inside.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.