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.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

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

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!