Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

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

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

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.

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

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.