We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

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.