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.

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us

Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies.

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

One must be able to let things happen.

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.