A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

Global competition is about winners and losers.

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

I'm a hard act to follow, because when I'm done, I take the microphone with me.

One of the things about living in the shadow of a suicide is that everyone involved is going to have some guilt, is going to wonder, 'What could I have done? What could I have said?'

Passion is a powerful force. Passion properly directed is unstoppable.