"The libido is the energy, regarded as a quantitative magnitude, of those instincts which have to do with all that may be comprised under the word 'love.'"

"The unconscious is the true psychical reality; in its innermost nature it is as much unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is as incompletely presented by the data of consciousnes…"

"The goal of psychoanalysis is to strengthen the ego, to make it more independent of the superego, to widen its field of perception and enlarge its organization, so that it can appropriate fresh portio…"

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

"The completely good man is a myth."