Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

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

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own