If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture's values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are.

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.

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.

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.