...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

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.