“Past is present if you carry it with you.”

“To succeed, you need to find something to hold onto, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.”

“Everything starts with yourself – with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life”

“I don’t believe in God. Not with my mind. Not with my sense. I believe in what you can see and feel and hear and know. But sometimes a mood comes over me when all of life seems mysterious. The seasons. Things that grow. The different ways to be a person. My dreams.”

“You have to plant doubt […] It’s like planting a seed that takes time to germinate. It might look like nothing is happening, but then suddenly the doubt will flower into some kind of action […] Patience is what is needed. People need to hear the truth, not just once but again and again. That’s what the politics of change is all about, patience and repetition, until the truth sinks in.”

“I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us.”

“If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. (friend who is a priest said regarding prayer)”