Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

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.

When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.

I believe we do have a great intelligence service. Is it good enough in all circumstances? Of course not. We live in the human condition. We try to make it better each day.

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therein and most of it did not happen, but it's all true. In that sense it is deeply religious, perhaps even biblical.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.