Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.