Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

Dream-displacement and dream-condensation are the two foremen in charge of the dream-work, and we may put the shaping of our dreams down mainly to their activity.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

The medical profession is justly conservative.

The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their psychology.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

Dreams are never concerned with trivia.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their psychology.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.