"I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at al…"

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them, they will defend it like a lioness her cubs."

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

"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."

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