I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It’s our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind that: if I remember who I really am and why I’m on the earth, then I more naturally want to treat my body like a temple and so forth.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.

We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.