One does not become fully human painlessly.

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.