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

God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

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

Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.