In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

What lies ahead? Worrying about it or creating it. Both requires a choice, one opens the door.

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.