A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

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.

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.