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

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.