Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

If you can't do it, give up!

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

A strong egoism is a protection.

All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.

Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.