The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

To heal your body, you must first heal your spirit.

Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this is so. . . . They will come to know that the natural tendency of the individual in a group is to forfeit his or her ethical judgment to the leader, and that this tendency should be resisted. And they will finally see it as each individual's responsibility to continually examine himself or herself for laziness and narcissism and then to purify themselves accordingly.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

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.

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