All that matters is love and work.

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.