“If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.”

“When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.”

“When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.”

“Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance”

“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”

“Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.”

“A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart”