“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming”

“My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious”

“Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works”

“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are”

“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him”

“Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.”