To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

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

Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.