The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root.

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.

When the time comes, don’t be afraid to open the door, just make sure you choose the right one.

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

There are a lot of mountains with a lot of water.

The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.