In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

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

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

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.

Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.