Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

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