We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Every neurotic is partly in the right.