That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

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.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.