If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

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.

See what I mean? Your confidence is so strong it’s obnoxious.

In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely.

Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is a misfortune " but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.

There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.

I'm not imagining me being the James Bond girl, because anyway I don't have the good maturation.

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

High heels off; I'm feeling alive.

An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to uphold.