We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.

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.

Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World.