The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.

Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.

Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.

Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.

Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.

We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.

The God who made us dust knows we're dust. We don't have to feel like perpetual failures because we aren't more than we are, and we don't have to be in contest and contention with everybody around us, because once I know myself and realize I have limitations, then two things happen: I realize my need for you, and I do not expect more from you than I expect from myself. So mercy comes with it, joy comes with it, authenticity comes with it, and freedom comes with it.