What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

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

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

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.