It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.