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

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

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.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

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

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

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