[Carl Gustav] Jung was not right when he said that the unconscious message is always written clearly and so there is no need to seek to discover the distortions, because one must recognize that many dreams are more or less distortions.

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

We have faith in the potentialities of others, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree to which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and love.

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.