It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.