Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.

When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.

To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.

If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.