Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and wander through life on the basis of sentiment and clichés.

If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.