The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality.

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.