Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

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.

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.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Sometimes it's not about speed about power, it's about up here man [points to his head]. All these guys are not with me mentally.

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

My mother told me, “Son, it is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.” I have tried very hard to heed those words.

Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

Floating high on the waters of catastrophe

If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit on their cash and not spend it.

Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?

As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.

Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.