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.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

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

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.