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.

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.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

Do what you feel called to do, but also be prepared to accept that you don't necessarily know what you're going to learn. Be willing to be surprised by forces beyond your control, and realize that a major learning on the journey is the art of surrender.

I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?