It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.

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

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

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

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

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

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

An old fool is the worst of all fools.

When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun

The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.

I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

You can never be too old or too young to be attracted to someone. I still remember my first crush back in grade school.

When we see the wholeness of being born, living, and dying, there is a joy in living and a grace in dying.