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.

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.

Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms

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

Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.

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.