Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile.

[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?