It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.