Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

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.

Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.