Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

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

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.