The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

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.

My writings are the window of my soul through which you can see me, feel me, and understand me.

What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart.

...if you spent all your time being protected, you never got to find out anything new.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

Bucket lists are supposed to be about doing things you've always dreamt about not torturing yourself.

The bottom line in all of it is that, in life, it's all about people.

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

The moon doesn't have enough gravity to keep an atmosphere around it and some men doesn't have enough honour to keep God's angels around them!

Is drunk dancing a type?

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.