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."

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

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

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

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

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