Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.

It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.

Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.

Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.