If you've ever had a friend who cares enough about you to get down in the dirt and roll around, to cry and laugh and shovel the manure of life, you'll know how I felt when Ruthie leaned forward. I still get shivers thinking about her words and how true they were. How true they are.

It is a grace to be able to hold onto someone who runs at life when you can only imagine walking.

She's not mean. She's just hurt. An animal that's gentle and friendly growls when it's injured. Remember that when people act ugly toward you. They're usually in some kind of pain.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.

Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been missing from their lives.

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.

The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church.

One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.