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.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.