...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love.

As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.

People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or the therapy that meant so much. It was more the fact that someone committed himself or herself to me. They were really interested in my life; they wanted to know what I was doing; they followed me; they dared to confront and challenge me.