Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

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.

A flicker of defiance flared very briefly in Rincewind's battered heart.

There is no adventure without risk, and no exhilaration like adventure.

Perhaps it was because his life as a human had been so happy and his life since becoming a vampire had been so lonely that Kian clung to any shred of humanity left in him.

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

My precious child, I love you and will never leave you Never, ever, during your trials and testings. When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that I carried you.

I like my privacy. I love being a part of [films], but when I'm not doing stuff, I like to go away. I enjoy being a person, a great deal.

It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.

I knew a girl so ugly, she had a face like a saint-a Saint Bernard!