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Poetry is the language of what it is not possible to say. — Rubem Alves

Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see. . . . Such disciplined love is what has given prophets, revolutionaries, and saints the courage to die for the future they envisaged. They make their own bodies the seed of their highest hope. — Rubem Alves

In forgiving, we do not forget; we remember in a different way. — Robert Schreiter

By doubting we come to inquire, and so to truth. — Abelard

Hope is hearing the melody of the future. Faith is to dance to it. — Rubem A. Alves

Life is short. And we do not have too much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the way with us. So, be swift to love, and make haste to be kind. — Henri Amiel

Maybe more than anything else, to be a saint is to know joy. Not happiness that comes and goes with the moments that occasion it, but joy that is always there like an underground spring no matter how dark and terrible the night. To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full. — Frederick Buechner

Hospitality is the fundamental virtue of the soil. It makes room. It shares. It neutralizes poisons. And so it heals. This is what the soil teaches: If you want to be remembered, give yourself away. — William Bryant Logan

For every soldier killed on the battlefield this year [2012], about 25 veterans are dying by their own hands. — Nicholas Kristof