If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that very evening there would be some man sitting at a bar in the local village, crying into his beer and sputtering to the bartender how much he loved his wife and children while at the same time he was wasting his family's money and depriving them of his attention. We recounted how this man was thinking love and feeling love--were they not real tears in his eyes?--but he was not in truth behaving with love.

It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings

All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach.

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.

In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous, maintaining at the same time a scientific orientation.

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