Anna Freud

"I have always found that if I move with seventy percent efficiency against logic, I generally lose, but if I move with thirty percent efficiency for it, I generally win."

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."

"It is impossible to be at ease if you do not trust yourself."

"The difficult thing about an easy role is that it's not easy to make it truth."

"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody."

"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the guardest moments."

"Mothering an infant is a situation where you have to close your eyes and believe."

"The emphasis has been placed upon the fact that many of the unconscious conflicts are sexual in origin."

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

"It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent that the child has to reach the level of neurosis."

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within."

"The child has a right to be understood."

"Sometimes one really understands that the safest thing to do is to stop being careful."

"Understanding is everything."

"The child is made to feel secure, he conducts himself well."

"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death."

"I am passionate about creating spaces where children can be themselves."

"The upbringing which the young receive is chiefly instrumental in making them good or bad."

"You can have immediate access to the subconscious of anyone if you just ask the right questions."

"What do we ask of life, and what does life ask of us?"

"In times of stress, we experience the presence of those inner objects which we have introjected."

"The adolescent in his struggle for identity wants to separate from family influences."

"War seems a natural outlet for human aggression."

"Insight must come slowly, if ever."

"Our first year of life is what shapes our entire existence."

"The child's life is not in our hands; it is in the hands of life itself."

"If you cannot work on the conscious mind, work on the unconscious."

"Times are tough and they are only going to get tougher."

"The question of the permissibility of war is a philosophical question."

"There is nothing more important than human contact and understanding."