The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.
Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.