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

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man