Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and the limited role of reason in human affairs.

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.

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.

There's so few people in this town with a conscience.

I value men and I don't necessarily want to adopt the man's role, but I do want to see women's humanity honored and respected.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Let's try to present the same gospel but in a fresh fashion, always looking for a better way to connect with the audience.

It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.