A strong egoism is a protection.

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.