"Our deeper struggles are in effect our greatest spiritual and creative assets and the doors to whatever creativity we might possess."

"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy."

"Keats or Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson or Mary Oliver often say more in one line about the invisible structures that make up the average workday than a whole shelf of contemporary business books."

"I've come to feel that nothing which gives comfort should ever be despised."