Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.

Words are animals, alive with a will of their own

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

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.