[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

Baseball teaches that errors are part of the game.

To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.

Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond expectations. Because the spiritual is beyond our control, it is never exactly what we expect.