“Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.”

“But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?”

“Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.”

“We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born.”

“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.”

“Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted...”

“Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.”