Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

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

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

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

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. Strange as it sounds, steady, patient growth in freedom is probably the most difficult task of all, requiring the greatest courage. Thus if the term "hero" is used in this discussion at all, it must refer not to the special acts of outstanding persons, but to the heroic element potentially in every man.