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 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.

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 relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

To remember nothing, " they would say. "What more could one possibly ask of eternity?

She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

Don’t obsess over having the 'latest' version of a product. For there was a time that the previous version was the latest.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.