As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me... I can scarcely keep pace and must watch out that the creative forces do not chase me around the universe in a wallop.

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.

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.