One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

[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.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.