“Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.”

“I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.”

“If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.”

“If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.”

“Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.”

“When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.”

“God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.”