The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.