Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

Reality is like a fine wine, ” he said to me. “It will not appeal to children.

If God is on our side, he'll stop the next war.

A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.

I'm going to do everything I can to help Hillary Clinton get elected and I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that Donald Trump never comes within shouting distance of the White House.

I like staying in hotels. I like their tiny soap. I like to pretend it's regular-sized and my muscles are huge.

The problem is, if El Chapo builds a tunnel under the fence, we need to deal with that too.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

I have 4 kids already, I don’t need anymore. I’m a single parent. I’m taking them through Europe and make them play funny instruments.