Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.