The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'

How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What's good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?

I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them.

To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.

We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.

The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.