To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations.

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.