Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

People are made either to sufffer or to destroy.

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

Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind toward aggression, destruction, and, in addition, cruelty. God has made them in his own image, with his own perfections; no one wants to be reminded how hard it is to reconcile the undeniable existence-in spite of all the protestations of Christian Science-of evil with His omnipotence and supreme goodness.

The more people I meet, the more I love my cat.