Only the wounded physician heals.

Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.