Eric Berne Quotes

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.

Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

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

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

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