Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

Attitudes are much more important than facts.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.