There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

Forge in the smithy of your soul.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

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

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.