Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.