338 Quotes by M. Scott Peck

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

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.

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

Integrity is never painless.

But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers.

Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most.

Teach us to number our days aright.