It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

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

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man