Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

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

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.