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

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

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