No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them with God's love...and they will get well.

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.

The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go forward in spite of our fears.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.

Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ.

See them so it seems that humanity is dead.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil

I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to make predictions about things or assurances often find they're wrong.

The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.

Stumbling is not falling.

I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.

I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.