Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

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

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.