People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.

By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.

By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.

Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine.

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.

While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.