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

The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

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.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.