Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

I am very, very uneasy with churches that have basically said, "Well, since that's what people want and that's what sells, then were going to do our worship services like Hollywood productions. We're going to have a lot of bells and whistles. We're going to have high entertainment value, and it is going to have a lot of gloss and glitter."

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.