If the will remains in protest it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

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 happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

Only the fool wants to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone.

The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said.

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

This new (technology) that is so transforming our world and economy is not going to work unless it works for everyone.