Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

If youth knew; if age could.

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.

"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"