Quotes from Eric Berne

Despair is a concern of the Adult, while in depression it is the Child who has the executive power.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.

Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.

No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.