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

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.

One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.

Forge in the smithy of your soul.

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.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.