Forge in the smithy of your soul.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

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.

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.

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.