There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

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

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

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

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union