It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.

To the extent that we retain the critical attitudes and destructive elements we have incorporated into our own personalities, we remain undifferentiated from our parents throughout our lifetime.

They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be “channeling” someone else’s thoughts and feelings.

In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences.

Differentiation is a universal struggle that all human beings face if they wish to fully develop themselves as individuals.

Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it

I’m alone, stumbling through the city in the dark, trying not to let the night freeze my blood.

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

An important mark of a good leader [is] to know you don’t know it all and never will.

I love a man who has lived a full life and lived on the edge.

You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.

My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.

... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.