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

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.

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.

Being your authentic self exudes a quiet confidence.

Your lips were made for mine, Beck. You are the reason I have a mouth, a heart.

The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward.

Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone.

I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.

Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.