Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.

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.

Write from your heart, write with blood and courage.

Where law ends there tyranny begins.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

I think we are living in a world that is too perfect and things are too retouched. I want to scream at the top of my lungs 'our imperfections are what make us special'

I'm not a great pothead or anything like that... but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol.

We understand through resemblance.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.