It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can't find it anywhere else, try looking here.

The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters; call me to be my best self; appeal to whatever in me is most noble and honorable. Don't let me go down the path of least resistance. Challenge me to make my life about something more than the acquisition of money or success

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.