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.

The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

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.

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.

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