Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Integrity is never painless.

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