Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

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.

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

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

I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.