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

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.