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

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

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

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

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly