One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.