What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

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

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.