The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.

Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and warm, is a psychotheraputic force, even though a small one.

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

[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.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.