Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

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

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.

Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.