The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

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

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.