Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.

What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as Mormonism, Mennonite, Amish, groups we would consider very traditional, is that they actually do the first half of life very well. They are often very happy people.

When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.