They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.