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.

I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God."

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

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

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

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

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.