Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and this new object then becomes, to use the apt expression of one of my women patients, 'impossible' - till at last the whole world lies under an embargo of 'impossibility'.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.