When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

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.

Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be damaged? Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be weak in some places?

Every answer you ever need lies within your own silence..

She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.

You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all.

As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things; but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other.

It's all about finding your voice in whatever your profession... it helps your confidence.

You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.