The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

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)

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

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.