Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.

A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.

The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.

Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved.

A seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a sage appeared bearing the answer to the secret. The sage said simply: "Stretch out your hand and reach what you can." "No, it can't be that simple," the seeker said. And the sage said softly, "You are right, it is something harder. It is this: Stretch out your hand and reach what you cannot." Now that's vision.