We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.