When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

FORTITUDE IS THE CAPACITY TO SAY NO WHEN THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR 'YES'

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.