One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.