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

Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

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

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.