A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.