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

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

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

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

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)

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.