Time spent with cats is never wasted.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young--a human activity which developed late.

It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing up of children and the government of nations.

Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.