Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

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

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

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.