It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

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.

Confidence comes from thoughtful action, reflection, and experience. Confidence does not come from reaction.

It's good to start over. It will be scary but you will see what you're really made of it's the best opportunity to achieve what you never thought you could.

Tears can ruin the handiwork of the best beautician.

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

Art is the signature of man.

We found that we didn't have much problem with him [J.C.], it was his followers we found questionable.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

Out of His fulness we receive, and grace for grace, — like wave upon wave.

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.