A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.

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

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.