To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.