I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

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

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

... 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.

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.