Dr. Karl Menninger

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. "

"Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. "

"Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken. "

"Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law. "

"One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways. "

"Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. "