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

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

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

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