Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.

Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.