All of the greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally insoluble...They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

The true leader is always led.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens.