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

That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

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.

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.