I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.