As I look at my nation, I am generally impressed by the physical courage of its citizenry but distressed by the lack of intellectual or moral courage. I think this is important because most quotes about bravery refer to physical courage. Yet if my nation is to go down the tubes, I suspect it will be more because of a deficit in its intellectual bravery.

Love is the will to extend one's self-in order to nuture-one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

Whenever we think of ourselves doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most. Whatever we do for someone else we do because it fulfills a need we have.

....c'était moi qui souffrais de troubles du caractère, pas lui. J'étais responsable de mon temps. C'était à moi seul de décider comment je voulais l'utiliser et l'organiser.

S'ils avaient un peu plus d'amour-propre, ils ne se laisseraient pas aller à se contenter (même avec passion) d'un objectif aussi superficiel et d'un avenir aussi étroit.

Une vie de sagesse est une vie de contemplation et d'actions entremêlées.

...What does a life of total dedication to the truth mean? It means first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it, but simultaneously examine the examiner...

...Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs...