Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.