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.

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.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men