Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.

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

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.