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

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.