One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.