Depression is the inability to construct a future.

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

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.

Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.