To “know thyself” must mean to know the malignancy of one’s own instincts and to know, as well, one’s power to deflect it.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he’s even worse than my brother-in-law.

Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms.

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken...

Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us...

People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn’t have needed any treatment at all if they had had the right care as children.

What’s done to children, they will do to society.

Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken....

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.