To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.

the key problem of psychology is that of the specific kind of relatedness of the individual towards the world and not that of the satisfaction or frustration of this or that instinctual need per se

They were more free, but they were more alone.

Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.

Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning.

Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown.

The doubt itself will not disappear as long as man does not overcome his isolation and as long as his place in the world has not become a meaningful one in terms of his human needs.

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.

Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

A fervently believed idea, even if wrong, dies hard.

We're going to bring our core message of hope and how God is a good God who's on our side.

We need to repeal and replace Obamacare. It is the largest tax in U.S. history, has proven to be a job-killer, and has driven up the cost of healthcare.

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.

In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.

How terrible the need for God.