People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.

The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

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