Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.

It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.