“The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.”

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

I’ve realized that somebody who’s tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

I want to beat everyone I’m playing against.

It is hard to lose for everybody.

Illness and problems are the specialties of life. But the death of a child is a cause of mental agony which can be overcome if one concedes this world to be a stage or stadium wherein praiseworthy are those who are not proud of their achievement and those who do not cry at their defeat.

When you lose in the quarterfinals or semifinals, you actually learn a lot from those mistakes.

In the wrestle for victory, let us not forget that greatness comes with defeat.

Winning and losing have their significance in a democracy. But there should be no arrogance in victory, nor should there be any despondency in defeat.