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

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.

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.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.