Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.