We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.

Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects.

Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.