He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is 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.

What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.

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.

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

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

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.