The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.

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.

Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.

You have a spark. It is real. It is you. And right now, it is being activated. You cannot ignore the spark any longer.

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers and boys used to dress like their fathers. Now girls drink like their fathers and boys dress like their mothers.

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others.

If we don't become a country that makes things again, we won't have enough jobs for our people.

I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.