Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.

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.

Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.

Okay, well, if motion is the constant, how can I remain in motion?

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.

The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.

They don't produce anything. All they do is guide you through the labyrinth of the legal system that they created - and they keep changing it just in case you start to catch on.

You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it.

The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is.

People sometimes don't like organized situations. Sometimes people need to be left alone more. Sometimes people need environmental support.