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

Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.