One does not become fully human painlessly.

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be.

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

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

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