I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

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

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.

What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner.

An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

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