In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

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

If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

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