Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.

The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.