There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.

God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.

What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go through life and you don't love ... and if you go through life and you don't tell those whom you love that you love them.

I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?