"The neurotic is always trying to avoid a catastrophe that never happens."

"Civilized man has exchanged a portion of his possibilities of happiness for a portion of security."

"The more the parents express their love, the more the child will grow in security and self-esteem."

"The aim of psychoanalysis is to strengthen the ego, to make it more independent of the super-ego, to widen its field of perception and enlarge its organization, so that it can appropriate fresh portio…"

"A man who has been the undisputed favorite of his mother retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it."