America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.

An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

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

Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

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.