The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

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

Integrity is never painless.

Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

Ultimately love is everything.