The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom" except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life.

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.