The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.

The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.

There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.