Depression is the inability to construct a future.

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.

The child is the father of the man.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

Please, if you're making a movie, start out with a good script, at least! Please!

Faith in God - life can never take you by surprise again.

A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed.

We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap.

As is well known, [Carrie Fisher] suffered - and was open about it. Her transparency was courageous, which is why people loved her.