One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.

Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way of being, a "giving to," not a 'falling for"; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.

If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself. A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively. Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it's absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.