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

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. Strange as it sounds, steady, patient growth in freedom is probably the most difficult task of all, requiring the greatest courage. Thus if the term "hero" is used in this discussion at all, it must refer not to the special acts of outstanding persons, but to the heroic element potentially in every man.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

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.

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.