I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.