Of course they fought as lovers must do to find a liveable space.

The first goal is for the clinician to find the patient, and the patient to find the clinician, as both are required for a real alliance.

Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.

Above all, the clinician must not shake what little faith the patient has in himself.

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.

Suffering brings the patient to us...the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person.

Many patients cannot hear until they feel heard.

An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

War is more than battles, and battles are more than violence.

Love- if not reciprocated, comes with an expiry date, no matter how strongly we beg to differ.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

It gets boring at home. How many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on TV?

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.

Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread.

Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it.

In obstetrics and gynecology, the term abortionist is still a dirty word.

Those who fight in God's cause will be victorious.