Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.