If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will have betrayed yourself

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Imagination is the outreaching of mind . . . . the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to "dream dreams and see visions . . . ."

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.