To relate effectively with a wife, a husband, children, friends, or working associates, we must learn to listen. And this requires emotional strength. Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand—highly developed qualities of character. It's so much easier to operate from a low emotional level and to give high-level advice. Our level of development is fairly obvious with tennis or piano playing, where it is impossible to pretend.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

The trick to dealing with criticism is letting it do it's good work but forbidding it to demoralize and destroy or to embitter.

Our feelings are real and they are powerful, but they are not more powerful than God and truth.

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally

Love is only as strong as your weakest moment.

Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.

It would be very petty of us who are well and can bear things, to think much of small offences from those who carry a weight of trial.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.