In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and this new object then becomes, to use the apt expression of one of my women patients, 'impossible' - till at last the whole world lies under an embargo of 'impossibility'.

The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.