We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)

We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.