So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen is the more essential property of water.

New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.

If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.