Here are some more words of wisdom from tony’s address to Catholic U:
To love is to place others before you and to make their needs your priority. Do it. When you put somebody else at the center of the frame, your entire world changes, and for the better. You begin to find your own place in the world. When youre drawn into the lives of others, you enter their problems, their hopes, their dreams, their families. They whisk you down unimagined corridors, toward possibilities that had been hidden to you before. So resolve to do little things for others. You dont know where theyre going to lead but then again, you dont have any idea where your life is going to lead. When I was your age, I had long hair, a beard and thought of myself as a socialist. You are going to pinball all over the place, from experience to experience, job to job. And I want you to remember that youve got company. And that if you engage them with heart and mind, with faith and energy, you are going to find yourself on a cresting wave. Itll carry you forward and itll push you under water from time to time. And some day in the dim and distant future, when youre looking back at it, youre not going to think about your car or your career or your gold watch. Youll think about a chewed-up teddy bear you had as a baby or maybe your childs smile on a special Christmas morning. The only things that are sure to endure are the artifacts of love. So go out and build as many as you can.
Beautiful...weeping.