Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

The ego is not master in its own house.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.