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.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

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

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.