Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.

We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.

People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.