The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values.

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.

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

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.