The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

A strong egoism is a protection.

All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.

Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

The goal of all life is death

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

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

My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.

The madman is a dreamer awake

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.