Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

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

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

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

... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

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

To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before