The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.