I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done.

We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

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