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

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.