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

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

Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another.

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.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

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.

miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.