I believe we have a profound fundamental need for areas of the earth where we stand without our mechanisms that make us immediate masters over our environment.

The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.

We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.

Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of personal worth, of purpose and richness in living.

Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.

It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.