Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man

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

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

... 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.

Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.

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