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

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.