People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

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.

That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

I'm a substitute mom." "You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail.

I was never a cardholder. But I was leftist in the sense that I voted communist.

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

Change means movement. Movement means friction.

Truth is first felt in the heart before the mind. Those that look for truth through the mind before the heart will never find Truth.

If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.