If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.

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

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.