One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

Love always was and always will be the only real answer. Why else do you think we have been taught so much hate?

The passion to teach, to share deeplyexperienced “lessons from life,” is embedded in all literature.

Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!

The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.

Give a man a teacher and he'll learn many a thing.Teach a man to learnand he'll learn from everything.

If your positivity immune system is low, any exposure to a person afflicted with negativity can poison your life.

A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young.

The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change?

Maybe you never considered yourself a bully, a batterer or an abuser before, but maybe you are — to yourself.