We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love me or refuse to love me, with those whom I love or refuse to love.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

All of us are much more human than otherwise

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

Fame is not the reason why brands are created and erected. Be diligent, focused and chain unceasing prayers to God who will continue giving you cheers.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

The fullness of existence is the experience of joy and sorrow, good times and dark times, pain and healing..

Why do you tell me this?" he asked. "How can you know who I'm speaking to?

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.