'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.

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.

My mistakes were because I was selfless. I wanted to complete someone else, I didn’t think about completing myself.

…He sounded as though he had just seen The Pokey Little Puppy meet the business end of The Little Engine That Could.

I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

We are all the children of God

I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

I don't want everyone to think of me as just 'that kid who called Jesse Jackson a communist in middle school.' That's why I decided to become a famous actress.

In the end, everything is simple.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?