A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.

Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.