The path to joy leads through despair.

Crying, that is, sobbing is the earliest and deepest way to release tension. Infants can cry almost from the moment of birth, and do so easily following every stress that produces a state of tension in the body... Human beings are the only creatures who can react in this way to stress and tension. Most probably, they are the only ones who need this form of release.

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.