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

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is thus more inclusive. But both symbol and myth have the same function psychologically; they are man's way of expressing the quintessence of his experience - his way of seeing his life, his self-image and his relations to the world of his fellow men and of nature - in a total figure which at the same moment carries the vital meaning of this experience.

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

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

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.