To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

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.

You must ask and meditate, after which the Holy Spirit will awaken your spirit to be joined with Him

The best audience is intelligent well-educated and a little drunk.

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.

Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.