We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.

The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

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

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

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

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