Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature, but it lacks something that it can only receive from outside and above itself. But when the light shines in it, it becomes in a manner transformed into light and seems to lose its nature in the splendor of a higher nature, the nature of the light that is in it.

And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.