Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

...the simple task of getting dressed and undressed was a real strain, but nothing could compare with her addiction to deep sleep...

I'm always looking for challenges.

Now my tapestry's unraveling.

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.

I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.