We do what we are and we are what we do.

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.

[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.