They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.