Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths...

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 isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

In the daylight, order ruled, fences stood, how-do-you-do's and polite nods were the recipe. But at night, darkness rendered everything still and hush and secret. Minnie was a curator of secrets.

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell.

Reading... a vacation for the mind.

Motivation is motive in action.

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.