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?"

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.