Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

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.

I make no apologies in admitting that I take very seriously the dehumanizing dangers in our tendency in modern science to make man over into the image of the machine, into the image of the techniques by which we study him.