I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.

The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life.