To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.