Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.

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.

You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.

Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.

The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from.

I like to keep the world, to some degree, an implied setting.

From now on, gang, we won't let Rudolph join in any reindeer games.