Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection