miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.

If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart.

It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is ... unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?