If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

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