While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.

Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.

Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

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

Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.