We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

We do what we are and we are what we do.

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.

People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.