All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.