We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.

The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature and fulfill the promise that sleeps within my being.

If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.

We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the process of becoming. Consciousness itself is a flight from the here and now to the beyond. Our reach always exceeds our grasp, which is what Heaven is for.