Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

You have to stop to change direction.

We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness