We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for us. I can solve a problem only when I say, "This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it."

Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.

The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life.

I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked tail than God has a long white beard. Even the name, Satan, is just a name we have given to something basically nameless.

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

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

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.