The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.

Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.

We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

The teenager begins to realize he or she really does want to be part of a community, really does want to have good relationships with others, really does want to create something truly good with his or her life. The teenager comes to understand just being smart and just being privileged are not enough.

I personally am not a total pacifist. I do believe there is such a thing as a just war. I believe, for instance, the effort to destroy the Nazi regime militarily was justified military action.