There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well . And the world must be easy.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.