I am glad that I do not have any children.

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.

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

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

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

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.