There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck.

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

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

All of us are much more human than otherwise

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

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