The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot.

Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.