All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

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.

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

By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it.