As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.