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

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

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.

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.