Time spent with cats is never wasted.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

The world is no nursery.

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

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.