Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to prevent non-Catholics from having abortions if they feel that abortions are morally acceptable. They can certainly only argue for what they believe to be right in the court of public opinion and try to persuade people.

I believe very deeply that this beauty I call the soul is not a random occurrence. I don't know what its meaning is at some larger level, but I know that it has meaning.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.