Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.

If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be as fully alive as you can be. You need courage to pursue the truth of your life and yourself.

We all wanted babies - but did any of us want children?

Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in the visitors' room. For the half-hour that I watched they never exchanged a word, just held hands and looked at each other, and once or twice the man patted his wife's face. The feeling of love was so thick in that room that I felt I was sharing in their communion and was shaken all day by their pain, their love, something sad and also joyful: the fullness of a human relationship.

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do.

Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".

Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. Our children are being led to believe that they are doomed to failure in a world which has room only for those at the top.