Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.

the key problem of psychology is that of the specific kind of relatedness of the individual towards the world and not that of the satisfaction or frustration of this or that instinctual need per se

To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.

They were more free, but they were more alone.

Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning.

Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown.

The doubt itself will not disappear as long as man does not overcome his isolation and as long as his place in the world has not become a meaningful one in terms of his human needs.

Nothing that the Creator gave is of unworthiness.

Love makes you feel at home in existence.

The rule in life is like with tennis: One point won't lose you the match, but if you let it get to you, it will.

You're mine, Nissa." The words were guttural, strained. She knew it. Deep inside her core the truth was there.

On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drink between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.

Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage.

I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.

Mayors are judged by results.