Your mind is the paintbrush, the earth is your easel. Create your masterpeice

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.

Roses do not bloom the same time as daisies.

Successful companies are built by investing lare amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.

If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

I've got a little cat, and I'm very fond of that.

I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

When in doubt, just take the next small step

For me, staying in place might mean staying with my own thoughts, even if the body keeps traveling. I might be experiencing new things, but I'm also here, with myself.

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.