When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.