There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.

When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.

The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace — a gift of God, a message from the unconscious.

I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers.

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

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.