Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is a myth that has led generations to expect something from marriage that is not possible.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic adult sins; when he postpones immediate pleasures for the sake of long-term values.... Our generation must be inspired to search for that maturity which will manifest itself in the qualities of tenacity, dependability, co-operativeness and the inner drive to work and sacrifice for a nobler future of mankind.