When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

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.