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

We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.

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!

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

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

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.