If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.

If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.

When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.

It's difficult to be alive in America today and truly be in denial anymore. It's not hip to be unconscious or uninvolved. One of our great strengths is that we're an optimistic people, but that doesn't mean we don't have sad days.

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.