Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

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

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.