In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

Self-confidence comes with self-awareness.

I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

One has no friend who has many friends.

You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.