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.

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.

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.

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.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

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.

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