Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment.

Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.

Without intuition there would be no vision of future possibilities.

no one can accomplish the inner release of another person. Freedom can be offered but it must also be accepted in order for it to 'take.

Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our consciousness some fault or inadequacy which we would prefer to have remain unconscious, and therefore without power to disturb our self-complacency.

success is not a matter of circumstance, but of power to meet circumstance.

To be rationally minded, the mental process of the intuitive appears to work backward. His conclusions are reached before his premises. This is not because the steps which connect the two have been omitted, but because those steps are taken by the unconscious.