Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate.

Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.

You cannot not communicate.

Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place

Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist.

Without Purpose, LIVING is downgraded to Breathing a boring routine of inhaling oxygen - waiting to exhale

To lose Is to learn.

I'd really want to - just from my own experience as an artist working with a writer, I'd want to do everything I could to tailor it to the artist I was working with.

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.

Until God opens the next door, praise Him in the hallway.

The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.

Everyone's always like, "Why don't you guys wear white ties?" You know why we don't? It's because they're in the wash.

I still have people saying to me, 'Oh, you're still together?' They don't realize Leppard's been around this whole time, because people just don't get to hear us.

All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.