We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

All failures are so because they lack social interest.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.