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

I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God."

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

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

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

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