Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

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.

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.

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.

There is a wilderness we walk aloneHowever well-companioned

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order,

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

I hate wasting people's time.

Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.