The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

Love is the feeling that emanates from the heart and extends through the blood to every cell of the body.

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible so long as the living process continues.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair and takes it away from you when it rains.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

Not that I ever did anything wrong. I was just aggressive. That's the way I am in my life.

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.