Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

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.

I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

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.