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.

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.