When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.