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.

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.

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.

The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.

Some build their castles 'mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.

Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited.

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.

God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.

Death's easy to find. If She wants you, you'll meet Her here as well as anywhere.

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.

Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house.

Isn't it just heart-stopping and mind-numbing when you stop and realize that the Republican Party doesn't want to win?

Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.