No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time

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.

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

But that is another story.

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.

When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies.

Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.

A great dress can make you remember what is beautiful about life.

Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.