Twenty-four years ago I went through a profound conversion of heart and God led me to the Catholic Church. A few years later I felt Him calling me to start a Bible study program.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

I could never lead a Bible study; I don't know Scripture that well.

Whites they pretended to ignore, as they busily lived mirror-image white lives.

They were my family, yet they were strangers.

Brastias. My friend.” Uh-oh, this couldn’t be good. “Do you lie to me?”“Uh . . . no.”“See? That’s a lie!

It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine.

Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences whatever they may be.

I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.