Pride in many diverse ways is the enemy of love.

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

The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.

The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude fulfills functions which seem indispensable in the framework of his neurosis.

The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged in intellectual pursuits but is a regular occurrence in all neurosis.

Whether we forget something we are not proud of, or embellish it, or blame somebody else, we want to save face by not owning up to shortcomings.

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!

Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa, I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza

You can't forgive your sin. Only God can.

Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass.

Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.