If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious.

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.