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.

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

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.

Marrying a woman who was reckless must have been the ultimate reckless act, requiring a lifetime of balancing to keep both of them safe

I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

My life closed twice before its close

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

To be human is erroneous.

When people have children, they have to grow up!

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.