The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

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.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.