The ego is not master in its own house.

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.