All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.

When somebody comes across as authentic and genuine and sweet, people just want to spend time with that person.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

The story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all.

The life thatI touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

If you want to be holy, be kind.

There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man

A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own.

Evil is revealed when there is seen what it does to one who is loved.

The depth of a priest's compassion is the measure of his apostolic success.

There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.