There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

All of us are much more human than otherwise

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.