Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.