Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

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

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

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.

Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

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.