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

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

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

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.