'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

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.

There’s no blade in the world as sharp as rejection.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

I think when you're younger you have a more black-and-white view of things. You're more exclusively dedicated.

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

Despite that sort of reputation that Canada has of being a boring place, we really have produced really interesting politicians.