Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

That which we can't remember, we will repeat.

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