Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

that person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.

for many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.

It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.

The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.