It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.