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.

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.

Pride in many diverse ways is the enemy of love.

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.

Life is gracious sacred-breathe.

He regretted nothing. Not the way she’d felt in his arms and not the way he’d felt in hers.

That's the biggest thing to separate - your body from your self worth.

Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't work we're gonna get rid of.

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.

In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

The purest magic is in the heart.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.