Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

The world is no nursery.

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.