The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

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.

If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.

Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.

I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.