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.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

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.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.