Quotes from Dr. Karl Menninger

Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

Generous people are rarely mentally ill.

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.

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.