The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. That is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.