The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

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

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

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 must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.