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

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

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

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.

To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before