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.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.