To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.

People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

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.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.

What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?