The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.