Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

I am so happy to be alive. That's the one thing I'd like for people to know. Sometimes people walk by and slip up and say the wrong thing about me, and I'll smile. They wonder why am I smiling. Because I'm happy that I'm alive.

I was born in '72, and my dad was county judge of El Paso from '82 to '86. He was just as independent as he could be, and had an amazing joy in life and in being with people, which, from my perspective as a kid, was that he was always going to do the right thing, and damn the consequences - political or otherwise.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.