Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.

There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go through life and you don't love ... and if you go through life and you don't tell those whom you love that you love them.

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.