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

Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.

The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins.

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

All of us wrestle with the angels of our inabilities all the time. We live in fear that our incapacities will be exposed. We posture and evaluate and assess and criticize mercilessly.

Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us.