When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it.

We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.

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.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.