The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.

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.

To be compassionate, you have to forget your own comfort zone and live well because you live beyond yourself.

It is strange how you shall hate a man, and yet pity him from the depths.

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

Our strive to succeed in life is an endless journey until we are called to our final resting place”.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.