A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.''

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation. . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.