Love always requires courage and involves risk.

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.

Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.

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

Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.