It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

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.

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.