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.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

The third discipline is community. Whom do you choose as your companions? Whom do you choose to be friends with, to live with? Are they people who love you, and care for you, and nurture you?

The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own heart. The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be. Only when your roots are deep can your fruits be abundant.

Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry. Silence is solitude practiced in action.

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.