An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force