The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.