It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.