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.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

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