Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

Forge in the smithy of your soul.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.