You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.

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The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.

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I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it would be that the event does not determine how to respond to the event. That is a purely personal matter. The way in which we respond will direct and influence the event more than the event itself.

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Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

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We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

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I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.

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Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

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I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.

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Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

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People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

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