To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.

The conscience is a communal organ—a way of knowing that we do with others formed always in reference to others.

Seek justice: Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.

I would have been trying to pitch a concept about my community to someone that most likely was not a part of that community.

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.