The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

— M. Scott Peck

To function successfully in our complex world it is necessary for us to possess the capacity not only to express our anger but also not to express it. Moreover, we must possess the capacity to express our anger in different ways. At times, for instance, it is necessary to express it only after much deliberation and self-evaluation. At other times it is more to our benefit to express it immediately and spontaneously. Sometimes it is best to express it coldly and calmly; at other times loudly and hotly.

— M. Scott Peck

Ultimately love is everything.

— M. Scott Peck

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

— M. Scott Peck

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

— M. Scott Peck

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

— M. Scott Peck

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

— M. Scott Peck

Whatever action we take may influence the course of civilization.

— M. Scott Peck

What happens when one has striven long and hard to develop a working view of the world, a seemingly useful, workable map, and then is confronted with new information suggesting that the view is wrong, and the map needs to be largely redrawn? The painful effort required seems frightening, almost overwhelming. What we do more often than not, and usually unconsciously, is to ignore the new information. Often this act of ignoring is much more than passive. We may denounce the new information as false, dangerous, heretical, the work of the devil. We may actually crusade against it, and even attempt to manipulate the world to make it conform to our view of reality. Rather than try to change the map, an individual may try to destroy the new reality.

— M. Scott Peck

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

— M. Scott Peck