Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

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.

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.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?