Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another.

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

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

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.

Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another.

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

Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.