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.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

In and through community lies the salvation of the world.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.

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

When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."