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.

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

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

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

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.

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

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