Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

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.

Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.