When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light.

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.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

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.

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.