June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.

There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us.

We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been.

Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.

Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe.

A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the keepers of religion may themselves become one of the greatest dangers to the credibility - and the morality - of the church itself.

A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.