Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

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

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

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

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.