Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

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

If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.

Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.