Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

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.