Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

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

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

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.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.