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

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

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.

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