A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

In and through community lies the salvation of the world.

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

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. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.