If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love me or refuse to love me, with those whom I love or refuse to love.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

All of us are much more human than otherwise

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

everyone thinks that other places is more fun than staying at home, but at the end..you will be coming home, because..that's where you belong to..

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.

I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I’m going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don’t remember reading.

Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

We're always trying to really ground it, and I use this term a thousand times, it's a score I want people to feel and not necessarily hear.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.

Future is about dematerialisation.