Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.

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.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I call balancing.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.