The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.

The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

His blue-green eyes were dark pools of immeasurable depth, pools you could drown yourself in and never again come up for air.

Ethics is a skill

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me.

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself.

I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.

She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.

I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.

Between me and You, there is only me. Take away the me, so only You remain.

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.