That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.

Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.