There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

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

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is thus more inclusive. But both symbol and myth have the same function psychologically; they are man's way of expressing the quintessence of his experience - his way of seeing his life, his self-image and his relations to the world of his fellow men and of nature - in a total figure which at the same moment carries the vital meaning of this experience.