Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

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.

Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

Nearness to God is common to us all, Because we're all created and sustained by God, But only the authentically noble Possess and live that nearness That's a constant upswelling passion of love.

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.

I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over