Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

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.

The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.