If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.