Death is the great equalizer. I've seen that phenomenon many times. I've had people in my classes come to me, men and women over 50 years old, and they say, "I made it, I'm rich. But what the hell is my life for?"

God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.

We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.

To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.

We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.

Real inquiry is a tremendous moral transforming force. It's not just questioning and looking for a quick answer or explanation, but the process of inquiry-of questioning, of opening-opens something in the human being which has not been touched in our culture. Everybody who is human has in themselves the potential of passionate inquiry after truth, and that's the transforming force.

To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.