Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.