One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

Forge in the smithy of your soul.

A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.

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.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.