If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

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

A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light.

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.

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.