The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe.

A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.