Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine.

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.