Quotes about Connection

If we start (as we must) at the bottom of the ladder, having compassion on all men, nothing that happens to others is foreign to us. Their grief is our grief, their poverty our poverty.

As a mother cannot forget the child of her womb, so a speaker cannot forget the child of his brain.

Our effectiveness at the bottom of the ladder depends on our communication with the top. Popularity is not necessarily influence. 'Woe upon you,' said Our Lord, 'when all men speak well of you.' Greatest is our compassion for others and our ability to elevate them when we have come down from heaven. The bottom of the ladder is best discovered from the top.

One who cares for another assumes the weight of the other's condition on his own heart and bears it in love.

Solitude can be very rewarding and full of blessing because in the silence of the inner being, one finds God.

We are wired to find love.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.