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.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

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.

God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

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

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.