The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

To praise one thing is not to damn another.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.