Theodor Reik

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.