Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

Be careful what you say to your children. They may agree with you.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the concept of autonomy. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights