Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.

When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.