We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

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

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.