If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

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

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