The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.

Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.

When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.