Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.

[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.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

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

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

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.