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.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well.

Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.

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.