We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.

We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace