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“I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.”
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“Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.”
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“I take everything with a grain of salt.”
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“It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This is to say, their inner purpose would emerge only as their outer purpose collapsed and the shell of the ego would begin to crack open. The emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: being? What do you do with it?”
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“In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.”
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“Come on, come on! And there'll be no turning back! You were only killing time and it can kill you right back. Come on, come on! It's time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.”
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“Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.”
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“In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups”
