Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.

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

When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted as to be virtually nonexistent, and the organization becomes inherently evil.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.