Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.

Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.