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.

That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

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