Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.'

Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

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

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.