Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

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?

Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.

miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.

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

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

There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on shape through the expression of the moment. The searching for our selves is the most agonizing