People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.

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.

While you keep ageing, your experience compensates for your lost brain power.

Ah,” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.

Wait! Don't applaud my cheapness! I've got other crap I need help with!

It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

If you give people really big jobs to the point that they're scared, they have way more fun and they improve their game much faster.

for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life