The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

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

By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.