Do what you feel called to do, but also be prepared to accept that you don't necessarily know what you're going to learn. Be willing to be surprised by forces beyond your control, and realize that a major learning on the journey is the art of surrender.

I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

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

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.