“Our desire to grow, to make a place for ourselves to know we have counted in the lives of others, is healthy and necessary to our existence”

“Today I will do one small task that will contribute toward the achievement of a life goal.”

“Our response to the external conditions of our lives can be greatly altered by our perceptions of those conditions.”

“Too often we look back on our lives with regret. What is done, is done. We learned lessons from those mistakes. Every day is a new beginning.”

“Life is not without pain and travail. They are necessary to new awareness which prompts growth.”

“Our desire to grow, to make a place for ourselves… to know we have counted in the lives of others, is healthy and necessary to our existence…”

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move ag...”

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”

“The road to success is always under construction”

“We prefer to imagine brutal wars and atrocities as events that "just happen" every now and then, much like tornadoes or lightning strikes; this metaphor suggests that we can't generalize from them,...”

“The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvag...”

“Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society?”