Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.

No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time

miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.