It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that a child who enters school already discouraged regains his self-confidence through his school and his teacher. This goes hand in hand with the vocation of the educator, for education is possible only with children who look hopefully and joyfully upon the future.