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.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.