To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.

A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness. A friend is that other person with whom we can share our solitude, our silence, and our prayer. A friend is that other person with whom we can look at a tree and say, "Isn't that beautiful," or sit on the beach and silently watch the sun disappear under the horizon. With a friend we don't have to say or do something special. With a friend we can be still and know that God is there with both of us.

We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.

The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.

Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine.

Nuclear man is the man who realizes that his creative powers hold the potential for self-destruction. He sees that in this nuclear age vast new industrial complexes enable man to produce in one hour that which he labored over for years in the past, but he also realizes that these same industries have disturbed the ecological balance and, through air and noise pollution, have contaminated his own milieu.

There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal.