Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know.

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

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.