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.

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

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

[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, [which is] in some strange fashion, the patient's, or the subject person's, private property.

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

All of us are much more human than otherwise