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.

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

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

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

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.