M. Scott Peck

A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.

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 do not think that everybody has to struggle. But to probably at least half of the people, it never seems to enter their minds that they might be engaged in a struggle or that there might be something to struggle with.

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

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.

I've gone to great lengths not to be a guru. I think the notion of guruhood is utterly pathological, and I couldn't live that way. I am just a person.