The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.