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?"

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.

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

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

What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong... And maybe it is good for us to feel that way. It may make us more sensitive to what we do wrong and move us to repent and grow.

Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all.