We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.