Attitudes Are Much More Important Than Facts.

It Was His Optimism That Freud Bequeathed To America And It Was The Optimism Of Our Youthfulness, Our Freedom From The Sterner, Sadder Tradition Of Europe Which Enabled Us To Seize His Gift.

Psychoanalysis Has Changed American Psychology From A Diagnostic To A Therapeutic Science, Not Because So Many Patients Are Cured By The Psychoanalytic Technique, But Because Of The New Understanding Of Psychiatric Patients It Has Given Us, And The New And Different Concept Of Illness And Health.

The Friends Who Listen To Us Are The Ones We Move Toward, And We Want To Sit In Their Radius.

Self Love Is Not Opposed To The Love Of Other People. You Cannot Really Love Yourself And Do Yourself A Favor Without Doing Other People A Favor, And Vice Versa.

The Adjuration To Be "normal" Seems Shockingly Repellent To Me; I See Neither Hope Nor Comfort In Sinking To That Low Level. I Think It Is Ignorance That Makes People Think Of Abnormality Only With Horror And Allows Them To Remain Undismayed At The Proximity Of "normal" To Average And Mediocre. For Surely Anyone Who Achieves Anything Is, Essentially, Abnormal.