Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".