The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for 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.

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

In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.