The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe.

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.

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

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.