To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

There's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for yourself and for your life...And this is what I hope...to make you understand how much you gain by taking re-sponsibility for every emotion, every movement you make, every thought you have...We touch each other by honestly being what we are, not intentionally making contact.

A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

Fear is excitement without the breath.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.