M. Scott Peck

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

As far as I am concerned, virtually all psychological diseases have their origin in our conscious minds. And that is not what we are taught.

I never thought I would ever be middle-of-the-road anything, much less a middle-of-the-road Christian, but it actually ended up I'm extremely middle of the road.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Ultimately love is everything.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

In some ways, I am grateful that I was raised in a secular home, because that meant that I didn't have any old religious baggage to carry with me. I was free to go and think what I wanted.