Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

The quest for knowledge shouldn't stop at the highest level of school education. It is a never-ending process.

When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.

If we are guided to give up our possessions, it will be a positive thing for us.

I was just born to swing, that's all.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

In this lineup, anywhere I hit, I don't care. I always go out there and swing the bat the same way.

Im running in a race and people are on the other track, I'm running with myself

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.