When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

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.

When he admires the man he calls his father--a man who is slightly above 'the scum of the earth', what does that say about the man who admire him?

If he makes humanity God and yet cries out against God's inhumanity, it is clear who has really been accused.

We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body.

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials

The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.

We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern.