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

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

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

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union