Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.