Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.

People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn't have needed any treatment at all if they had had the right care as children.

Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

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

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.