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

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

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.

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?

Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.