When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose is to ask, "What kind of community should we be so that mental retardation isn't a barrier to the enjoyment of one's full humanity?"

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.