The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

You are capable of good deeds.

A winner has more skills than a loser, " Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.

If you sense there must be more, there is more.

No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.

All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

A civilization is always judged in its decline.

Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

...And Sunday's the one day I rest, give thanks, and bless.