I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

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.

Fair and unfair are for children

In every situation, there is a sacred answer. You must search and seek.

Yesterday's faults become today's lessons. Today's dreams become tomorrow's reality.

Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.

On the four aces doom'd to roll.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.

The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.