We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

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

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

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