In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child's separation.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

In fifty years activity as an analyst I have witnessed again and again that a dreamer after having met a personage regarded by all as influential and good,saw him again in a dream with a different face.

Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own power by which he relates himself to the world and makes it truly his.

If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless.

In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.