Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.