In my clinical experience the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

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.

I’ve learned that no matter how inspired, fired up and motivated you might be, the dark clouds will always set in

Seek to learn. See to learn.

I love silent conversations accompanied by a soft caress on my skin and my head on your chest listening to your heart desires.

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

You're gone. No mailing address. But I send you letters anyway.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.

Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live.

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.