Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

a normal human being ... does not exist.

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.

Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Without focusing and getting to clarity you cannot lead. You cannot motivate. You cannot plan. You cannot communicate.

Did we miss out on a lot of targets? No. Was it disappointing? No.

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

When you're with the person you love, you're home.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.