Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

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.

Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.

Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.

That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.

You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

I love the Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It's like traveling all over Latin America without ever leaving LA.

Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.

It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.