No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

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.

It is not the years that count

Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.

They emanate an essence of caring, love, and compassion towards the people they know, and generously extend their aura to the new people they encounter.

The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs? -Clary, pg.266-

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter, at least for a while, to see what the world looks like from outside it.

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.

As you get older one tends to develop what I call a wobble. I would rather eat glass than let that happen to my voice.

Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.

Gnostics can awaken to the real state of Illumination only through the understanding and elimination of dreams.