It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.

Augustine wrote, "That first way [to truth] is humility; the second way is humility, and the third way is humility." If humility does not precede our wisdom and help, our efforts are meaningless. Paul, it seems, would agree. Life in Christ starts with humility.

When the only one who has a right to be angry chooses love and service, when He considers the interests of others more important than His own and chooses humility—He changes everything (p. 55).

Who in your life is one step ahead of you in knowing people? What does that person do?

We don't aim to draw out problems so that we can be helpers. We are simply interested in knowing another person, which is a basic feature of everyday love.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.