The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

The true leader is always led.

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.