In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged.

The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

It's good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go.