The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.

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.

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.

And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

It doesn't matter is you call it 'Obama-care' or 'Elvis Presley care' or 'I-don't-care care.' It cannot sustain itself in its present form.

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.

Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

Sure, they are the future of our world. Nike and Reebok need more factory workers every day.