To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I call balancing.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.