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 we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.