Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.