If his decision to keep us here in the Congo wasn't right, then what else might he be wrong about? It has opened up in my heart a sickening world of doubts and possibilities, where before I had only faith in my father and love for the Lord. Without that rock of certainty underfoot, the Congo is a fearsome place to have to sink or swim.

I needed no snake to tell me I didn't belong in that family or house, or life. I was the tree of knowledge.

Like the saying goes: They passed out the brains, he thought they said trains and he missed his.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds. Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought and helps break the whole into parts.

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

To be trusted, it is said, is greater than to be loved. In the long run, I am convinced, to be trusted will be also to be loved.