The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

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.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.