Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.

You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life; no one can take that away.

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Creative life is always based on the values of the self, not on the values of the system.

When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

We will be judged by how well we love.

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.

Almost all the military personnel were wearing sunglasses. No Iraqis wear sunglasses. They really want to see your eyes. So immediately they can't trust the Americans.

Unemployed and dependent - is not as parasite.

The good may lose; the bad may win! Remember this! Because knowing this increases the chance of the good to win!

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.