Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.

It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance

As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences and love for the most challenging among us.

What transforms us is not what we do but our integration with WHAT IS.

Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.

We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom.

The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling.

One reads not for information, but inspiration.

Be proud to act like a normal human being. Keep daylight hours, get a regular job, and mix in the company of people with a fixed sense of right and wrong.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference

Then they ask, "Do you want Jesus to come into your heart?" Does it bother anyone that this formula or language is not found in the New Testament?

When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.