Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.

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

Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be the more you will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn.

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.