We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.

Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you.You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls.

Nature is always wise in every part.

For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity.

Change your 'Nafs', change the world.

What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.