The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in Phoenix, let's say. He turns and finds himself facing the children.

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.