The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't

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

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.