The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.

Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

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.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.