Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what is tearing it apart.

A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.

I have to be honest with you, it never occurred to me, as years went by, that my country would look like this as I grew into it, and as it grew into a different world. That's why I keep pressing the notion that we must seek wisdom.

No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it.

Life is the ability to start over again.

"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind." Persons have vision only when they have a dream that drives them on.

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.