When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity