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.

The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.

Food commonly eaten for more than 150 years should be innocent until proven guilty, and food invented in the last 150 years is guilty until proven innocent.

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

The appetite grows for what it feeds on.

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if Im inspired by the results.

The neuroses parody the virtues.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.