Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

For every mountain you climb and plateau you rest at, there will be another and more interesting view ahead.

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.

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.

As the Lakota Sioux phrase Mitakuye Oyasin—“All my relations”—implies, we’re all connected, all in this together. Recovery is reciprocal: heal yourself, heal the world; heal the world, heal yourself.

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.

We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.