Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.

Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.

Sitting too long in front of a screen proves both physically and psychologically debilitating, no matter how innocuous or even beneficial the programs may be.

In the darkness, be the light.

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I let them eat ice cream? Absolutely. But not every day.

Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

Nobody tells me f-k all!

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.