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

Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.

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

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe.

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