Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Forge in the smithy of your soul.