Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

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

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

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