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

We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!

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

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

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.