Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

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 may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Don’t just raise the bar… Raise the roof.

I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.

The American empire should be destroyed.

Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics.

The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.