Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

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

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.