How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I’ve really been doing is running?

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

What wonderful things dreams are! They can make you be anything you want and take you anyplace in the world.

We have a choice to live in the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Darkness.

God doesn’t want us to sit idle and simply enjoy His presence, he wants a close relationship with Him

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

Sadhana is towards creating a sense of inner fulfillment, where there is no need to lean on anyone anymore.

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

I believe women are the glue of everything.