The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

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.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

We will never surrender but go forward to win the game.

I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by.

The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.

I will get stronger. I will return.

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

It's hard to want to let somebody into your house.

I'm a people person when I'm out, but I'm a homebody. I like my time and peace and quiet.

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.