When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.