We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

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.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and, at the right moment, communicate it to him. Psychoanalysis was then first and foremost an art of interpreting. Since this did not solve the therapeutic problem, a further aim quickly came in view: to oblige the patient to confirm the analyst's construction from his own memory.

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.