Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

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.

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.

Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

As rice grows riper, the lower it bows its head. Never lose your humility while you grow.

Fool that I am, " said he, "that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

To me there is a name for each person. I think it’s marvelous to have a name. A woman is not a woman. It’s either Gena or my mother or some other person.

We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.

Never be afraid to dream.

I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.

If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit.