Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.