Forge in the smithy of your soul.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be.

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

One does not become fully human painlessly.