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

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

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

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.

Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.