In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.