I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

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 Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

Love gives life.

Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For one thing, Aristotle and Aquinas never watched television.

Father, you are asking me to sacrifice the only girl I love so you can openly have the woman you love.

Use your unique gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.

Do something, by God’s help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

My last sort of crisis was about overcoming the people who were more interested in what I had done than what I was doing in the present.

When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.