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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Habit is a great deadener.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

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

Freud’s view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.