The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.