Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.

Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.

Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.

The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.

Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.

The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

Our thoughts, imaginations, and actions are what make us into who we are.

If you count your blessings, you will know, they outnumber your troubles.

Heroes are the saints of every nation.

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

I hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease

This is what America's all about, nobody's being hurt they have a right to express themselves, I watched all the television I could on Miami-Dade and I didn't see anybody being shoved around.

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy.

Through the years I've never stopped doing things, thinking about things, and I still think young.

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.