When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow. - M. Scott Peck

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual.... For it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

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.