Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

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.

D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

No one leads the orchestra without turning his back on the crowd.

If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.