Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts.

Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.

Even though I didn't think I'd like empathy it kind of creeps up on you and makes you feel all warm and glowy inside. I don't think I want to go back to life without empathy.

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

I'm not going to miss 95% of life to weigh 5% less.

The sexually insatiable woman is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.

Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.