It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

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

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

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.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.