Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness.

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.