But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

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

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.