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

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

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.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

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

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.