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.

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

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

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

Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.