The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

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

This [the Irish] is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Thought is action in rehearsal.

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

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.