Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.

We do what we are and we are what we do.