« For children who do not have a good home, a hospital stay can be the first good experience. Some of them don't even believe enough in human beings to be sad. They are friendly with everyone who comes in and when they are alone, they swing back and forth or bang their heads against the pillow or the sides of the bed. »

« The unforgivable sin of the analyst in psychotherapy would be to use the analytical relationship for personal purposes. »

« I found that this boy felt a compulsion to fly, heard a voice giving him orders, the voice of a sorcerer. `...` It would have been easy to divert this boy from the path that led him to healing. He did not realize, of course, the intolerable loneliness and emptiness that was behind this disease and which had made him adopt the sorcerer instead of the more natural organization of a surmoi; this loneliness belonged to a period when he had been separated from his family at the age of 5. If he had received a correction or if the director had told him that he should be ashamed, he would have hardened and organized a more total identification with his sorcerer, he would have become tyrannical and provocative and would eventually have been an antisocial individual. »