Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

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