One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!

I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness.

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

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.