Menninger, Karl Augustus

US psychiatrist

• "Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
• "Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law."
• "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 is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken."
• "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."