I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose is to ask, "What kind of community should we be so that mental retardation isn't a barrier to the enjoyment of one's full humanity?"

The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.