It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

... 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.

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.