Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Reading illuminates our path with the brightest light.

She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

I'm not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.

The only way to win is to work, work, work, work, and hope to have a few insights

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

As the guardian of our rights, the Supreme Court makes decisions every year which either protect the individual or leave him at the mercy of more powerful forces in our society.

I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.