Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

She was a warrior by day... playing her part. But she slept at night with wishes in her heart.

There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.

To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.

The essence of darkness is the knowledge of what blocks the light.

I hope my children just grow up happy and pursue their dreams. I mean, that's all I can ask of them.

When I'm in the U.K., I have a personal trainer who is wonderful, and she's hard-core and makes sure I get up in the morning and go.

Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies.