Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.