Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

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

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.

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.