God isn't calling us to a lonely, joyless existence with the promise of a delayed reward. God is calling us to live, to love and enjoy the challenge. God's formulas are roadmaps to freedom and peace. God is saying to us: "The only way to live is to be free. So save your heart for love and save your love for persons. Don't ever let any 'thing' own you. Don't let money or fame or power or the pursuit of pleasure put a ring in your nose and lead you around. Love persons and use things." And of course, this is the only way to live, to be free.

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

Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.

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

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

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.