I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

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

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

I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres of influence.

Teach us to number our days aright.

Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be the more you will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn.