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

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.