We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.

When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

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

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

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.

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