One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

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

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.