"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

"What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree."

"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being."

"Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values."

"I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person."

"The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no."

"The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith."