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.

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

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

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

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.