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.

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.

Attitudes are much more important than facts.

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.

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

We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive tendencies away from himself toward enemies that actually threaten him rather than toward the friendly and the defenseless, the more usual victims of destructive energy.

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