The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.