The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

We must make a decision of values.

If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.