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.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.

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

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.