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

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

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

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 . . . ."

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.

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