There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

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

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.

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.

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

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