This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!