“The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.”

Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.

There’s no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.

Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.

Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn’t. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.

A leader’s responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.

We need rest not just so we feel better. We need rest for actual creation of what we’re going to need the next day.

Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.

Dating is primarily a numbers game. People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That’s just the way it is.

Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.

It is true that you get what you tolerate.

The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.

A person who hasn’t grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

A mature person has the integrity to stand alone.

Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love.

The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.

There’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.