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

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.