True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.

When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted as to be virtually nonexistent, and the organization becomes inherently evil.

Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this is so. . . . They will come to know that the natural tendency of the individual in a group is to forfeit his or her ethical judgment to the leader, and that this tendency should be resisted. And they will finally see it as each individual's responsibility to continually examine himself or herself for laziness and narcissism and then to purify themselves accordingly.

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.

God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

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.

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.