People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.

To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.

This is a divine path.

Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.

Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.

Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you.

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?

The ability to communicate is not something we are born with. We have to learn it and earn it.

Nothing quells anxiety like action!