Be living witnesses of the greatness and beauty of Christianity.

Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through its crystal the world should see God.

Love and sacrifice are closely linked, like the sun and the light. We cannot love without suffering and we cannot suffer without love.

The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.

Have gracious thoughts of your neighbors, kind thoughts of your friends, loving thoughts of your family, and humble thoughts of yourself.

Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.

Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.

There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot.

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.

Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

Even animals who sometimes seem unlovable to humans, have also feelings. They can suffer just as we do.

One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.