Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.

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.

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

It’s not a dream, it’s my destiny.

In the writer's mind, even a backstory has a backstory.

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guitar sounds in it, so that's what it is.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

I write fiction, there's no guarantee that what I say is truthful.

Music will never stop - it can never stop. I will continue to sing for my fans till the end of time.

I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"