The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!

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.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

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

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