to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.