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

Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

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.

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

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.