All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.

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.

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?

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.