Creativity is a yearning for immortality

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

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

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

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.

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

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.