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

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

Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.

Christmas is the alcoholidays

No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.

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.

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.