Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

always thought of myself as a loving person. But she was right. I had been a fair-weather friend. As long as she was happy and nice, I loved back. But if she was unhappy or upset, I would feel blamed and then argue or distance myself

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you consider to be right.

Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care about; many of our most fateful decisions are made unbeknownst to ourselves. Yet we insist that mankind can achieve what we cannot: conscious mastery of its existence. This is the creed of those who have given up an irrational belief in God for an irrational faith in mankind.

To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well.

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.