M. Scott Peck

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

The amount of people in this world who are here to do something great far outweighs the rest.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.

Wherever there is power there is age.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

We have a problem. Congratulations. But it’s a tough problem. Then double congratulations.