I would rather be whole than good.

One cannot live without inconsistency.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.