A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.