If Your Goal Is To Avoid Pain

Delaying Gratification Is A Process Of Scheduling The Pain And Pleasure Of Life In Such A Way As To Enhance The Pleasure By Meeting And Experiencing The Pain First And Getting It Over With. It Is The Only Decent Way To Live.

There Is No Worse Bitterness Than To Reach The End Of Your Life And Realized You Have Not Lived.

The Will To Grow Is, In Essence, The Same Phenomenon As Love. Genuinely Loving People Are, By Definition, Growing People.

Courage Is Not The Absence Of Fear; It Is The Making Of Action In Spite Of Fear.

When I Am With A Group Of Human Beings Committed To Hanging In There Through Both The Agony And The Joy Of Community, I Have A Dim Sense That I Am Participating In A Phenomenon For Which There Is Only One Word...."glory."