Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

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

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.