One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

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

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

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.