I try to make sense of life. I try to keep myself open to people and to laughter and to love and to have faith.

Remember who you are and whose you are.

God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere.

I know that God is using me in ways beyond my comprehension.

Part of my approach to my illness has been to say I want to choose life, I want to keep going, I want to live fully until I die.

God has given me the grace to see some of the seeds that I have sown bear good fruit, and I am so grateful.

I find that when I am involved in the business of life, when I'm working with people, particularly with children, I feel better. A kind of strength and energy comes with that.

Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous." (pg. 18)

Make your life the greatest story ever told!

I can't help thinking that caring possibly is the riskiest enterprise known to man. But how stop caring?

When love is not madness it is not love.

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

I might wear a tux on Monday. Or a kimono!

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.