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

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

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

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.