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

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

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

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.