Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.

I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and parcel of intellectual integrity. But I do urge that we not let the drive for honesty put blinders on us and cut off our range of vision so that we miss the very thing we set out the understand - namely, the living human being.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.