Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

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

If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of sex, the hope of ambition, friendship-all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.

Integrity is never painless.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.