You already made the choice, you are simply here to walk it.

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 don't destroy what you want toacquire in the future.

When we suffer we inspire ourselves to change. Imagine we had no pain to overcome, we would not take action to make our life any more meaningful. Turn your suffering into motivation to change.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

After each game, I want to be able to say: I gave it all I could, I gave it my best.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.