Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

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

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

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.

Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible

But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds, you can navigate them or even use them to expedite your journey.

It is through our deepest intimate relationships that we can gain some of our soul's most powerful spiritual advancements.

People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.

Great times are great softeners

I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.