Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

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

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.

Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.

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.

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