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

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.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

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

The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.