Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

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

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.