Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

Simple things are always the most difficult.