You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.

The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?

Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.

Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.